Word: duking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Medicine section's senior editor, James Atwater, also jogs away tension and praises biofeedback techniques, which he learned in a program at Duke University two years ago. Yet another runner is Medicine Reporter-Researcher Mary Carpenter, who has tried a "tranquillity tank," spending half an hour floating in a dark saltwater chamber. "I didn't begin to feel the beneficial effect until afterward," she reports. "Suddenly I was HUGH PATRICK BROWN refreshed and clear and focused, and the relaxed feeling lasted longer than that from any other technique I've tried...
Britain's Margaret Thatcher could summon up the image of 1769, when the Virginia assembly, protesting the British Revenue Act, was dissolved by Governor Botetourt. In defiance, the assemblymen moved up Williamsburg's Duke of Gloucester Street to the Raleigh Tavern, where next day they reconvened in the Apollo Room and drew up a boycott of British goods. It was a warning that the British ignored, to their regret...
...bona fide risk factor for heart disease by the American Heart Association and the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. Studies have shown that Type A's respond differently to stress than do calmer people classified as Type B's. When Dr. Redford Williams at Duke University asked a group of male undergraduates to perform a mental arithmetic task (serial subtraction of 13 from 7,683), the Type A students produced 40 times as much cortisol and four times as much epinephrine as their Type B classmates. The flow of blood to their muscles was three times...
...remarkable aspect of this archaeological reconstruction is not that Wodehouse lives; he is far more robust between cloth covers than in the theater, where he is bereft of narrative and description. The evening demonstrates only one astonishment. Edward Duke, the entire cast of Jeeves Takes Charge, is a festival of upper-class twits, from the harrumphing members of The Drones, young Bertie Wooster's club, to the nattering dames, to the one true aristocrat of Wodehouse's canon: the immortal, if tiresome Jeeves...
...Duke recently won a British award for Most Promising New Actor. At 29, the boy seems a bit long in the tooth for rookie of the year; in the best Wodehouse tradition, one wishes him finer fortune in sturdier stuff. Carry on, Duke. - By Stefan Kanfer